so actually the NFT use case that makes the most sense to me so far is NFT nudes. insofar as the NFT architecture imposes artificial scarcity on top of infinitely copyable information, at least an NFT nude gets to be like “this is the special copy that’s just for you big boy 😘”
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generally, and speaking only for my hangups, i am quite uncomfortable about the whole concept of selling digital information - ebooks, art, music, etc. with the exception of commissions. i believe pretty strongly in “information wants to be free”. NFTs are... the opposite?
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to me there is something really special about the infinite copyability of digital information. i think we don’t have good funding models yet for producers of such information (writers, artists, musicians). NFTs feel to me like a step backward, like DRM
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what i’d like to see instead is a compelling theory of digital economics that builds in infinite copyability as a foundational assumption from the outset. how do people capture enough of the value of their digital products to make a living without imposing artificial scarcity?
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i think the model that feels least bad to me right now may be the patreon model - where people aren’t paying for individual products, they’re paying to support you as a creator. that makes sense to me and doesn’t require scarcity; you can just not have any patron-only content
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i don’t want any of this to discourage people from fucking around with NFTs, experimentation in this space seems good, and, one of the deals with experimentation is that most new ideas are bad. ppl have pointed out parallels to the ICO boom of 2017 and, well, time will tell
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Is artificial scarcity bad? People who don’t want to pay get access to the thing and people who do want to pay also get access to the thing.
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idk i feel conflicted about it. i have the same feeling of conflict about artificial scarcity in video games - like games where you can pay real money for special gear or whatever. it feels like a particularly degenerate form of rent-seeking
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NFT nudes work by being unlockable, right? You buy it, use the secret key to unlock the nude. There isn't anything stopping someone from selling lots of copies of the same nude to different people, telling each of them it's unique..
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Yeah the whole thing doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense.
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